s2e38 Big Business on Your Bookshelf, Authors Day at the Library
Dan Sinykin, Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature, Novelist, Beth Revis, Poet Kyra Freeman
SHOW NOTES
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December 05, 2024
Martha speaks with Dan Sinykin about Big Fiction, How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. Tony Robles visits novelist, Beth Revis, and poet, Kyra Freeman, at Morganton Public Library in North Carolina. Also, we persist in resisting book bans and give thanks for your community radio station.
HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. FEATURED POET: Kyra Freeman (Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain, Redhawk Publications). GUESTS: Dan Sinykin (Big Fiction, Columbia University Press), Beth Revis (Full Speed to a Crash Landing, Penguin Random House), Kyra Freeman. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray. Living It! is from the CD, Living It!, Martha Cinader’s Po’azz Yo’azz. ‘Pelicans’ from Field Report Vol. XI: Cape Lookout by Chad Crouch
GUESTS
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Dan Sinykin – Author, Professor of English
Read more: Dan Sinykin – Author, Professor of EnglishDan Sinykin is an assistant professor of English at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in quantitative theory and methods. He is the author of American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse (2020). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Dissent, and other…
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Beth Revis – Author/Co-owner of Wordsmith Workshops
Read more: Beth Revis – Author/Co-owner of Wordsmith WorkshopsBeth Revis is an internationally acclaimed bestselling author with books available in more than 20 languages and has toured internationally to meet her fans. Five of her novels have listed in the NY Times, including her most recent title, the co-authored romantasy Night of the Witch. Beth primarily writes science fiction and fantasy for both…
Tony Robles Reports from Local Authors’ Day at the Burke County Public Library in Morganton, NC – Part I
Beth Revis – Author of Full Speed to a Crash Landing
Kyra Freeman – Poet, Author of Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain
Part II will air as part of Season 2 Episode 39 December 12, 2024 and will feature Christy Lowman, Leila McMichael, Margaret Langley, Marissa Eller, Michael Hardy, and Tanya Sparks Bevin
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
Kyra Freeman
“Forgiveness”
Kyra Freeman writes poems, tells stories, and dances in the kitchen in Morganton, North Carolina. A former school librarian turned massage therapist, she was raised in Vermont. She lives with her family and pets and goes outside in the yard as much as possible. She is the author of Second Life: Poems of Re-emerging (Redhawk Publications 2021). A member of the Asheville Storytelling Circle and the NC Storytelling Guild, her stories and poems have been featured on WNCW’s Word Stage radio program.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Dan Sinykin – Big Fiction
Read more: Dan Sinykin – Big FictionDan Sinykin – Big Fiction. In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other large corporations purchased…
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Kyra Freeman – Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain
Read more: Kyra Freeman – Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot ContainPoet and storyteller Kyra Freeman is like the little Dutch boy with her finger placed in a dam of imagery and intense emotion. Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain takes the reader from the ordinary to the sacred. As delicately as a spider weaves her web, Freeman weaves poetry expertly, intuitively, building a…
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Beth Revis – Full Speed to a Crash Landing
Read more: Beth Revis – Full Speed to a Crash LandingA phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists by New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great characters, romantic tension, and is full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end Fans of Martha Wells and Becky…
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David Jauss – Words Made Flesh: The Craft of Fiction
Read more: David Jauss – Words Made Flesh: The Craft of FictionWords Made Flesh contains six essays by the award-winning fiction writer David Jauss, each of which challenges current reigning dogmas about the craft of fiction. As in his previous collection, Alone with All that Could Happen, Jauss takes a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to his subjects. Whereas many craft books tell writers what…
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Leila McMichael – Haunted Historic Happy Valley
Read more: Leila McMichael – Haunted Historic Happy ValleyTales and legends of ghosts and haunted places follow the Yadkin River as it meanders through Historic Happy Valley, a part of the Yadkin Valley, which runs from Patterson to Elkin in western North Carolina. Haunted Historic Happy Valley explores the paranormal history of the Valley, and the surrounding region, all of which is haunted.…
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BANNED BOOKS
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